In Sierra Leone there has been a dramatic end to the trial of 15 people, amongst them eight foreigners mostly from South America.
The men were convicted for landing a plane loaded with cocaine and were sentenced on Monday for their involvement in the drug haul.
But the drama seems to be unfolding further in a thriller-like flourish. From Freetown, Umaru Fofana takes up the story.
It has been five months since Zimbabwe's leaders signed a power-sharing agreement and the new administration has been plagued by one crisis after another.
President Mugabe's recent unilateral reassignment of some ministerial portfolio responsibilities, and a wide range of senior appointments without consulting his coalition partners, prompting a crisis meeting being called for Thursday in Harare.
Prominent human rights lawyer Happison Nkomo has seen it all before having risked imprisonment and arrest by taking on cases that have infuriated President Robert Mugabe. He told Lewis Machipisa first if things had changed in Zimbabwe.
Our reporter in Madagascar, Jonny Hogg spoke to ousted president Marc Ravalomanana on a satellite link to South Africa.
He began by asking whether the recognition of Madagascar's new transitional authorities by the country's constitutional court was a problem for him.
First ladies from across the continent meet in the American city of Los Angeles today, for a conference on maternal health, girls education and HIV and Aids.
Sierra Leone's First Lady Mrs Sia Nyama Koroma is taking part, on the line to LA Peter Ndoro asked her what areas of health are particularly important to her.
In the commercial art world, Western dealers have seen interest in African work boom in recent times.
Network Africa's Bola Mosuro visited Africa Now, the first African modern and contemporary art sale at Bonham's auction house, to see what kind of price the artworks would achieve.
Ethiopia is mourning what many describe as one of the greatest - if not THE greatest popular musician - the country has ever produced.
Tilahun Gessesse - known to some simply as 'The Voice' - died on Sunday night at the age of sixty-eight.
He was in the music business for half a century performing in the distinctive Ethiopian jazz style. Yalew Kebede once worked with Tilahun and now produces an Ethiopian cultural radio programme in the UK. He looks back at Tilahun's life and music.
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